ACE Solutions Of The South, LLC

ACE Solutions Of The South, LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Covington, Louisiana, provides canine trainer services and explosives specialist support exclusively to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as a prime contractor under small-business-set-aside and full-and-open vehicles. The company holds 100% of its federal award footprint with ATF across three active blanket purchase agreements totaling approximately $1.85 million in ceiling value.

ACE Solutions operates under two primary NAICS codes: Pet Care (except Veterinary) Services (25 awards) and Investigation and Personal Background Check Services (12 awards), with corresponding PSC coding for veterinary and animal-care support and professional support services. The vendor's capability portfolio centers narrowly on canine training—imprintation, transportation, training, and certification of explosives and accelerant detection canines—and explosives specialist instruction and compliance support. Representative work includes a $27,900.69 BPA call from August 2023 for canine imprintation and transportation between ATF's National Canine Division facility in Front Royal, Virginia, and Sterling, Virginia; a $10,000 call from April 2024 for explosives specialist services at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama; and multiple $3,000 to $4,500 canine trainer calls issued throughout 2025 and 2026. Most recent work is a $4,600 canine trainer BPA call for the Bureau awarded August 31, 2026.

The vendor's customer concentration is absolute: ATF accounts for all 37 awards and $2 million in combined potential value. However, obligated dollars tell a different story—only $677 thousand (33% of potential value) has been invoiced, reflecting the short-duration nature of individual task orders. Activity has declined year over year, from 10 awards in 2022 and 2023 to six in 2026. ACE Solutions places work under three BPA vehicles: a $700,000 canine trainer BPA awarded March 1, 2022 (expiring February 28, 2027) with 24 task orders totaling $120 thousand; a $1 million explosives specialist and contract specialist BPA awarded February 2, 2023 (expiring February 1, 2028) with 7 task orders totaling $44 thousand; and a $150,000 contract specialist BPA awarded March 31, 2022 (expired March 30, 2023) with 3 task orders totaling $13 thousand. ACE Solutions is a pure-play sole-source contractor with no subcontracting footprint and no presence on government-wide vehicles or multi-agency IDIQs. The vendor competes through both total small-business set-asides and unrestricted full-and-open task-order calls on its standing BPAs with ATF.